Religious Intolerance Quotes

• The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

  Aleister Crowley

  Religious, Doors, People

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 3, 1969.

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• I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice; where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind; and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Attitude, Believe

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Teaching, Sacred

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• The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Atheism, Belief

  Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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• To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Honor, Too Much

  Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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• Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.

  Isaac Bonewits

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

  "Understanding the Religious Reich or The American and World-Wide Threat of Fundamentalism" by Isaac Bonewits, Version 2.6, www.neopagan.net. 1990.

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• The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Christian, Religious, Taken

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• Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anger, Interesting, Understanding

  "Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects".

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• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Life, Courage, Bullying

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• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Heart, Land

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.235, Penguin

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• As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

  Stephen King

  Dream, Halloween, Thinking

  "The Mist". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Atheism, Natural

  John Stuart Mill, Charles W. Elliott, Patrick Hayden (2004). “On Liberty”, p.8, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.

  Adrian Rogers

  Religious, People, Movement

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• No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

  George H. W. Bush

  Atheist, Hatred, Scary

  Campaign press conference at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, August 27, 1987.

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• The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

  Princess Diana

  World, Today, Problem

  "Remembering the enduring legacy of Lady Diana: the People’s Princess" by Natasha Koifman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2017.

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• Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Tolerance, Humans, Cornerstones

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

  Will Durant

  Christian, Religious, Rome

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• We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

  George Carey

  Religious, Hands, Scripture

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• Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

  John Shattuck

  Religious, World, Today

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• the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,' the usual reply is women, blacks, teachers, and unions. Those are 'special interests' to be proud of - because together they comprise the majority of Americans. What about the 'special interests' that dominate the Republican Party - the oil companies, the banks, the gun lobby, and the apostles of religious intolerance?

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Teacher, Religious, Party

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• The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.

  Harvey Milk

  Names, People, Facts

  "Need More Proof Being Gay Isn’t a Choice? Here It Is!" by Steve Siebold, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2014.

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• A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for the adherent of another religion but usually it does not stop there. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. However, hatred then leads to persecution when the might of the majority is behind it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Believe, Successful

  Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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• Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Kind

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1999.

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• Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Religious, Long

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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